Example Sentences

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“Pure Colour” is not helplessly, organically, healingly funny, as were some of Heti’s earlier novels.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022

If he had a cut finger she would bind it up very skilfully and healingly, but unless he told her she never discovered he had a cut finger.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Without dissection what can they know of anatomy? and unskilled in anatomy, how can they guide the knife healingly among the intricacies of the human frame?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

It was as though she could not tell whether those tears were his, or had come healingly into her own dry eyes.

From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy

What is wanted is just as much acid as will act healingly on the injured vessels, and no more.

From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce